In message <E17KRTC-0003yP-00@bender.jdwhite.org>, gendalia@gendalia.org writes
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>Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> wrote:
>}I'm getting ready to install 1.6 and/or its betas.  Given the set of 
>}machines I want to install it on, the easiest and most reliable way is 
>}for me to burn a CD with all of the installation stuff.  It would be 
>}especially nice on my laptop for the CD to be bootable.  How do I 
>}prepare one of those?  More specifically, what options and what files 
>}do I pass to mkisofs to create the proper image?
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>I've made multi-architecture bootable CDs before and will again, available
>from ftp://ftp.iastate.edu/pub/NetBSD/iso-local/README.html, but I also
>include the (primitive) script I use to create them, as well as a link to
>the NetBSD documentation I used to create the script.  If you're only
>creating i386 bootable CDs, all you need is the install tree layed out
>as /cdsources/i386/*, and the mkisofs command line
>mkisofs -v -v -o /path/output.iso -b i386/installation/floppy/boot-big.fs \
>   -c boot.catalog -no-iso-translate -l -J -r -L /cdsources |& tee /tmp/mkhybr
>id.log

Thanks; that's exactly what I was looking for.  Of course, I don't know 
why I didn't notice the actual, official documentation...

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)